Understanding educational poverty through Freire. A proposal for the training of socio-pedagogical professional

Abstract

The article presents the foundational steps of a research aimed at engaging future socio-pedagogical educators in a reflection on the forms of oppression and deprivation that characterize the contemporaneity. The theoretical framework refers to Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and defines the educational poverty construct as plural deprivation limiting the possibilities for individuals’ abilities, talents and aspirations to flourish freely. From this framework, it is intended to outline a participatory research proposal involving newly enrolled Educational Science Degree students at the University of Milano-Bicocca, in order to understand how a classic of pedagogy can be a tool for understanding the complexity of the present and acting within it. The work is intended to offer an insight to design an increasingly relevant training for these professionals.